Editing Organisation armée secrète (section)

== In popular culture ==

The OAS is referenced in [[Ian Fleming]]'s 1963 novel ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]''. [[James Bond]]'s future father-in-law Marc-Ange, the head of a Corsican crime faction known as Union Corse, refers to the OAS in chapter 24, due to the OAS having a French military helicopter in their possession. Because of the OAS indebtedness to Marc-Ange and the Union Corse, the helicopter is loaned to the [[MI-6]] – Marc-Ange/Union Corse coalition endeavoring to thwart [[Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]'s plot to unleash biological warfare in the UK's agricultural industry.

OAS graffiti appears outside a bakery approximately eight minutes into the 1963 film ''[[The Bakery Girl of Monceau]]''. Two minutes later, following the second appearance of the exterior, similar graffiti appears to have been removed from the facade of the bakery.

The OAS featured prominently in [[Jack Higgins]]' 1964 novel ''[[Wrath of the Lion]]'', in which the organization fictionally manages to suborn the crew of a French Navy submarine and use it for missions of revenge.

[[Alain Cavalier]]'s 1964 film ''[[L'Insoumis]]'' stars [[Alain Delon]] as a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who joins the OAS on a kidnapping mission. Cavalier had already addressed the issue in the 1962 film ''[[Le Combat dans l'île]]'', starring [[Romy Schneider]] and [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]]. Despite not being named its acronym, the movie is set in the context of the campaign of bombings and assassinations by the OAS.

The OAS features prominently in the 1971 novel ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' by Frederick Forsyth, and its [[The Day of the Jackal (film)|film adaptation]]. The story deals primarily with a fictional assassination plot against [[Charles de Gaulle]], where the organisation hires a British contract killer (the Jackal) to kill de Gaulle. Bastien-Thiry and the Petit-Clamart plot figure prominently in the early sections of the story. Forsyth also mentions the OAS in his 1974 novel ''[[The Dogs of War (novel)|The Dogs of War]]'', with several of its protagonists having joined the movement. The fictional Colonel Rodin from ''Jackal'' is also alluded to.

The OAS is referenced in the [[Oliver Stone]] film ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'', as suspected conspirator [[Clay Shaw]] (played by [[Tommy Lee Jones]]) is alleged to have business connections with them. The plot to assassinate De Gaulle at the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907992,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214080344/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907992,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 December 2008 |title=Objective: De Gaulle |magazine=[[TIME (magazine)|Time]] |date=9 October 1973}}</ref> is also mentioned several times in the film.

The 2002 movie ''Legion of Honor'' is about an Englishman who joins the Foreign Legion and is set in Algeria shortly before their independence. "OAS" is mentioned numerous times as well as shown in graffiti outside a number of structures.

The OAS is referred to in the 2008 film ''[[Mesrine (2008 film)|Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1]]'' (''L'Instinc de Mort)'', describing the life of French criminal [[Jacques Mesrine]]. The character of Guido (played by [[Gérard Depardieu]]) is a member of OAS. Guido mentions OAS multiple times and together with Mesrine he assassinates another OAS member, who in his last moments declares: "De Gaulle killed us".